Before Lewis And Clark Documents Illustrating the History of Missouri 1785-1804 Two Volume University Nebraska Press Softcover Book Set 1990

Before Lewis And Clark Documents Illustrating the History of Missouri 1785-1804 Two Volume University Nebraska Press Softcover Book Set 1990

<Condition is Good+ as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, visible edge-wear, light creasing/rubbing, corners chipped, toning to interior pages) size is approximately 9” x 6”

—"The return to print of this crucial work should spur interest in the rich history of the Missouri River, especially its long-ignored lower section that gave the opening into the American West for more than a century. If you want evidence that Mark Twain wrote about a lesser river, begin with Before Lewis and Clark." —William Least Heat Moon, author of Blue Highways: A Journey into America. "Those readers who prefer their history 'straight,' who would taste the savor that comes only from original sources, will find this collection of documents a rewarding experience." —U.S. Quarterly Book Review.

Before Lewis and Clark: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri, 1785-1804 was praised by Bernard DeVoto for its "rich abundance of detail... put at the service of scholarship" when it first appeared in 1952. A. P. Nasatir's two-volume compilation, the result of a lifetime of research, would "fructify the work of others for years to come." And so it has been and will continue to be indispensable in any consideration of the westward exploration that paved the way for Lewis and Clark.
Nasatir prefaces Volume I with a detailed history of the exploration of the Missouri that DeVoto called "the standard authority" on the subject. Beginning with the discovery of the river in 1673, he charts the slow advance up it by the French and then by the Spanish, whose search for a route to the Western Sea was accelerated by trade with Indian tribes and competition with the British. Nasatir has collected, translated, and annotated letters and other documents dated from 1785 to 1795 to throw light on the history of a vast area "before Lewis and Clark."

A. P. Nasatir, emeritus research professor of history at San Diego State University, has had a career distinguished by its contributions to the documentary history of the French and Spanish regimes in the American West.
In his introductions for the Bison Book editions of Volume I and Volume II, James P. Ronda, the author of Lewis and Clark among the Indians (University of Nebraska Press, 1984), has connected the documents to a complex sequence of events and discussed Nasatir's themes. Volume Il collects historical documents written from 1796 to 1804, when Lewis and Clark began their ascent of the Missouri.

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